Yedda, Co-Founder and CTO, VP at AOL
Israel
- Current
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- Advisory Board Member at BloggersBase.com
- Advisory Board Member at SaveAnAlien.com
- Advisory Board Member at PicApp
- Past
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- VP R&D at SmarTeam
- R&D Director, Web Technologies at SmarTeam
- Team Leader, R&D Manager, Web Technologies at SmarTeam
- Chief Software Architect at IDF, Intelligence Corps
- Developer at HyperAct
- Developer at Sitav Software
- Developer at Freelance (Self-employed)
- Education
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- Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
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Yaniv Golan’s Summary
I've been building software products that people use since 1989.
That's long enough to make a lot of mistakes in many diverse fields - technological, managerial, organizational, inter-personal.
Hopefully I've also learned a lesson or two on the way.
Named one of the Top-40 Israeli Internet Startup Professionals by TheMarker Magazine in 2008. Mentor for up-and-coming high school students with StartupSeeds.
Currently I serve as CTO for Yedda, an AOL company. I've co-founded Yedda on 2006 (acquired by AOL on 2007). Previously, I was VP R&D at SmarTeam, acquired on 1999 by Dassault Systems (DASTY). Before that, I was chief architect in a software unit in the Intelligence Corps \ IDF, where I built a distributed Geographical Information Systems. Prior that, back in the early days of the Web, I've worked for HyperAct, an Internet startup company that created tools for web development, web based e-learning and hypertext viewing and authoring.
I hold a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Yaniv Golan’s Specialties:
Some of the areas in which I was fortunate enough to be allowed to make mistakes:
* Software Dev., Product Dev., Quality Assurance, Product Definition, Product Management, Online marketing (social & traditional), Content, Analytics & BI
* Managing big & small teams in multi-national corporations spanning multiple locations
* Raising startup funding
Yaniv Golan’s Experience
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Advisory Board Member
BloggersBase.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Advisory Board Member
SaveAnAlien.com
(Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Advisory Board Member
PicApp
(Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Advisory Board Member
Tracx
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Advisory Board Member
Sense of Fashion
(Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Vice President
AOL
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
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Advisory Board Member
Face.com
(Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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CTO Yedda
AOL
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Responsibilites include:
* CTO: Architecture, Technology, Processes
* Online Marketing: SEM, Media buying, Social Media
* Product Management
* Product Definition
* Analytics & BI
* Editorial Content Creation
* Community
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CTO
Yedda
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Co-Founder, Yedda http://yedda.com
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VP R&D
SmarTeam
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — March 2005 (3 years 3 months)
Managed the R&D department, providing managerial, architectural and technological leadership.
Managed a development organization of 60 developers.
Responsible for research, development, maintenance, architecture and technology
Worked directly with large customers to define requirements, deliver solutions and support implementations:
- NOKIA, IBM, ACER, Comverse, TEVA, BOEING, Bosch, Goodyear and others
Worked directly with Microsoft and IBM development groups as early adapter.
- Microsoft: .NET, SharePoint Server, MS SQL Server, MS Index Server, Windows 2003, BizTalk Server, Office, .NET My Services
- IBM WebSphere: WAS, WPS, WBI, DB2, Lotus Notes
Assisted in pre-sale efforts with large customers.
Selected achievements:
- Transformation to a development organization capable of multiple parallel releases concurrently and efficiently
- Transformation from Windows-centric, workgroup solution into a Cross Platform, Web-based, Enterprise level solution -
R&D Director, Web Technologies
SmarTeam
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DASTY; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for platform and technologies
Selected achievements:
- Led the development of SmarTeam’s web platform
- Led the migration to Web Services and to .NET
- Architected iXF, authored iXF Specification:
XML-based industry standard for integrating and exchanging product, plant, or project information throughout manufacturing enterprises and their supply chains; extensible standard for transferring data, metadata and related files.
- Innovated industry-first support for MS ASP.NET on IBM WebSphere Application Server. -
Team Leader, R&D Manager, Web Technologies
SmarTeam
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 3 months)
Responsible for the development of SmarTeam’s web technology
Selected achievements:
- Created the first SmarTeam web clients
- Led the migration to COM technology
- Scaled up a single-threaded desktop engine into a multi-threaded server application
- Laid the foundation for SmarTeam’s XML support -
Chief Software Architect
IDF, Intelligence Corps
(Defense & Space industry)
September 1995 — September 1999 (4 years 1 month)
Responsible for the entire lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, support and operation) of a distributed Geographical Information System deployed at multiple military and industrial customers.
Led the development of the following technologies:
- Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) database engine
-- Metadata driven, Industrial-strength, GIS-enabled
- Declarative GUI
- GIS data processing engine & GIS GUI (vector and raster images and maps)
- Archiving and processing solutions for Very Large Data Files
Initially part of the R&D unit of the Intelligence Corps; Later, played major role in the creation of a new software development organization.
Led special projects abroad.
Awarded "Head Intelligence Corps Award for Creative Thinking". -
Developer
HyperAct
(Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — January 1997 (3 years 1 month)
Designed and implemented innovative solutions for:
* Hypertext single-source authoring and viewing
* Web application development
* Web based e-learning -
Developer
Sitav Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1995 (4 years )
Designed and developed a report designer specializing in mining and analyzing performance and transactions data from mainframe-class systems.
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Developer
Freelance (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 1989 — 1991 (2 years )
Designed and developed telephony solutions based on specialized hardware used by commercial for automatic mass telemarketing, phone-based orders, contacts management.
Yaniv Golan’s Education
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Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel
BSc , Computer Science , 1991 — 1995
Additional Information
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Yaniv Golan’s Interests:
technology, social software, object relational, photography, ...
Yaniv Golan’s Groups:
• Led Microsoft’s Israeli .NET Users Group (2001)
• Member of KMi (Knowledge Management Israel) club (2005), GeekCon, KinnerNet
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the.co.ils - The Israeli Internet Networking Forum -
Carmel Entrepreneurs Club -
Venture Capital Cafe (+5000 Members) -
Technion Alumni -
TechAviv -
AOL CONNECTIONS -
3DS Alumni
Yaniv Golan’s Honors:
Head Intelligence Corps Award for Creative Thinking, 1999.
Top-40 Israeli Internet Startup Professionals by TheMarker Magazine, 2008.
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